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Immediately prior to joining Legendary, she was Vice President of Business Affairs at NBCUniversal, where she worked for 9 years, on both the network and studio sides, starting in the legal department.

Jennifer began her legal career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City. She then worked at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP in Denver before moving back to Los Angeles to work at NBCU.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from UCLA, summa cum laude, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude.

In addition to her strong bankruptcy and restructuring knowledge, Jennifer also has significant experience in the area of corporate finance, having represented a number of lenders and borrowers with respect to loan originations and merger and acquisition transactions in non-distressed deals.

In 2017, Jennifer was named a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL). In 2014, Jennifer was named to the American College of Bankruptcy as a fellow for the class of 2015. Jennifer is also a contributing author of Collier’s Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Jennifer is very active with the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. She is on the Board of Directors, serving as secretary to the Board, and is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee.

The 2013 edition of Chambers USA notes Jennifer’s “particular expertise in representing lenders”, quoting an interviewee as saying that Jennifer “is technically top-notch” and “in dealing with investors, companies and creditors she takes control of meetings and expresses our viewpoints.” She has been identified as a leading Bankruptcy lawyer in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2008–2017) and Who’s Who Legal: Restructuring and Insolvency (2016–2017) and was named in The Best Lawyers in America (2013–2018) and Southern California Super Lawyers (2012–2018). Jennifer was named to the 2011 Daily Journal’s list of the Top 25 Women Corporate and Transactional Lawyers in California and was featured in the Los Angeles Daily Journal 2014 list of 100 Leading Women Lawyers in California. L.A. Biz named Jennifer a 2015 “Women of Influence” honoree, recognizing a “strong track record of paying it forward through community service and mentoring.” In 2014, she received the award for “Mentoring: Private Practice Lawyer of the Year” from Chambers USA Women in Law. Chambers USA Women in Law Awards honor outstanding private practice and in-house female lawyers and law firms that have made outstanding contributions to pro bono work, gender diversity and the mentoring of women lawyers. Also in 2014, she was the recipient of an “Innovator” award from ALM’s The Recorder for her “mentor[ing] of female attorneys on social media use, co-authoring papers and developing the building blocks of their practices.” The award honors “original approaches to improving delivery of legal services to clients.”

As SVP/GM of Disney Concerts, Chip oversees the development, production and licensing of a broad array of concert programs, including orchestral productions such as the upcoming Star Wars Film Concert Series that will premiere with the New York Philharmonic in Fall 2017, as well as “Pixar in Concert,” The Little Mermaid in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, “Fantasia: Live in Concert,” numerous tween-focused concert tours such as “High School Musical: The Concert” and “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” and the upcoming Frozen Ice Concert Experience worldwide touring production that will launch in 2018.  Disney Concerts currently produces or presents over 400 concert events worldwide each year with paid attendance in excess of one million people.  Chip also focuses on managing DMP’s expanding businesses, including signing top contemporary songwriters to the roster, collaborating with DMP’s global publishing partners, and developing new strategic initiatives to leverage The Walt Disney Company’s incomparable music catalog.

Chip began his career as an associate with Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, a Washington, D.C., media and communications law firm.  He was later recruited to join the New Media practice group of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a preeminent technology and venture capital law firm based in Silicon Valley.  In 1995 Chip joined Warner Bros. Records, serving in various capacities in his 11 years there, including Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs.

A native of Southern California, Chip received a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served as Senior Articles Editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review, and he received a B.A., Magna Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a major in Communication Studies.